If there’s one factor that may provide vindication for a film that teeters on the point of being scrapped after its completion, then that’s one other film from the identical IP scoring an enormous win on streaming. That’s precisely what occurred on HBO Max with The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Film vaulting to No. 3 within the streamer’s film chart nearly as quickly because it arrived on the platform. That is one thing that sends a transparent message about Warner Bros. Discovery’s makes an attempt to shelve their different latest Looney Tunes film, Coyote vs. Acme.
In typical Looney Tunes style, the animated sci-fi comedy, which pairs Daffy Duck and Porky Pig in a B-movie alien-invasion spoof, has bounded onto its new streaming house with all of the hyperactive enthusiasm the franchise calls for. After getting a uncommon theatrical launch in March as the primary ever feature-length Looney Tunes unique film to be performed in cinemas, and recouping its $15 million finances from a reasonably low-key run, the film has now moved to Max, the place it was initially set to be launched by WBD earlier than its extraordinarily optimistic debut at Annecy Worldwide Animation Movie Pageant in 2024. The total synopsis of the film goes one thing like this:
“Porky and Daffy are our unlikely heroes and Earth’s solely hope when going through the specter of alien invasion. On this buddy-comedy of epic proportions, they race to avoid wasting the world, delivering all of the laugh-out-loud gags and vibrant visuals which have made the Looney Tunes so iconic, however on a scope and scale but to be skilled. It should be out of this world”
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The Day the Earth Blew Up was launched to a harmonious set of evaluations from each critics and audiences, with the movie’s Rotten Tomatoes scores sitting respectively at 86% and 88%, which is a uncommon second of settlement for any film launch. What’s extra, is that all of it clearly proves that there’s an urge for food for Looney Tunes content material, and that bodes properly for Coyote vs. Acme’s long-awaited launch.
‘The Day the Earth Blew Up’ Paves the Means for ‘Coyote vs. Acme’
There are only a few unreleased motion pictures which have had the form of headline time and been a relentless level of debate as Coyote vs. Acme. The film, an animated/live-action hybrid which costars John Cena and Will Forte, induced a large outcry when WBD tried to scrap the finished movie as a tax write-off similarly to Batgirl. Nevertheless, in contrast to that film, Coyote vs. Acme turned the brand new “Snyder Lower” marketing campaign as followers and stars of the film pushed for the movie’s launch.
After seeming to have fallen off a cliff with a big rock shut behind it, and after two years in limbo, Coyote vs. Acme lastly obtained a launch date because of Ketchup Leisure, who additionally distributed The Day the Earth Blew Up. The film shall be launched in cinemas in 2026.
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The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Film
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- Launch Date
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March 14, 2025
- Runtime
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91 minutes
- Director
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Peter Browngardt
- Writers
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Alex Kirwan, Darrick Bachman, Kevin Costello, Andrew Dickman, Johnny Ryan, David Gemmill, Michael Ruocco, Ryan Kramer, Jason Reicher
- Producers
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Sam Register
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Eric Bauza
Porky Pig / Daffy Duck (voice)
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Candi Milo
Petunia Pig / Outdated Girl (voice)
